Zero Sum Game Quotes

• Life is a zero sum game.

  George Carlin

  Zero, Stupid, Games

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• Programming is not a zero-sum game. Teaching something to a fellow programmer doesn't take it away from you. I'm happy to share what I can, because I'm in it for the love of programming.

  John Carmack

  Zero, Teaching, Games

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• We believe that economics does not necessarily have to be a zero-sum game; it can be a win-win proposition for everyone involved so long as they have the tools in which to succeed.

  Ron Kind

  Success, Zero, Believe

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• I don't look at business as a zero-sum game. I don't. I've never seen it play out that way in our industry, and I think you innovate and you add value, deliver value back to customers, and you get value back from the world.

  Marc Benioff

  Zero, Thinking, Games

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• In the great non zero sum games of history, if you're part of the problem, then you'll likely be a victim of the solution.

  Robert Wright

  Zero, Games, Problem

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• My guiding principle is that prosperity can be shared. We can create wealth together. The global economy is not a zero-sum game.

  Julia Gillard

  Zero, Guiding Principles, Games

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There's a false notion that success is a zero sum game. To win in our careers we have to give up family. To work hard we have to sacrifice sleep. To accomplish we must take (or borrow or steal) from somewhere else in our lives. It's just not the case.

  Maynard Webb

  Zero, Giving Up, Hard Work

  "The “Spirit of And”: Part 2" by Maynard Webb, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 20, 2010.

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• If the economy is not expanding, the redistribution of income becomes a zero-sum game. And therefore, all the class struggle - and it becomes much more vicious.

  Manmohan Singh

  Zero, Struggle, Games

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• It is not a zero sum game. The simple idea of the gains from trade lies at the heart of the modern and the ancient economy, not the power of capital. There is nothing else to it.

  Matt Ridley

  Zero, Lying, Heart

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• Death is a zero sum game for which there is no cure.

  S. Jay Olshansky

  Zero, Games, Cures

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• We have the data to prove to men that gender equality is not a zero-sum game, but a win-win.

  Michael Kimmel

  Zero, Winning, Men

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• A lot of people, including business leaders, think the future belongs to China. Globalization is not a zero-sum game, but we need to hone our skills to stay in play.

  Jon Meacham

  Zero, Thinking, Games

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• Building a startup community is not a zero-sum game in which there are winners and losers: if everyone engages, they and the entire community can all be winners.

  Brad Feld

  Zero, Games, Community

  Brad Feld (2012). “Startup Communities: Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Your City”, p.45, John Wiley & Sons

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• There are a couple of watersheds in human evolution. Most people are comfortable thinking about tool use and language use as watersheds. But the ability to play non-zero-sum games was another watershed.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Zero, Couple, Thinking

  Interview with Tamler Sommers, www.believermag.com. August 2005.

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• Being rich is a good thing. Not just in the obvious sense of benefitting you and your family, but in the broader sense. Profits are not a zero sum game. The more you make, the more of a financial impact you can have.

  Mark Cuban

  Inspiring, Zero, Impact

  "Get rich, pay taxes: it's a patriotic duty" by Mark Cuban, www.theguardian.com. September 22, 2011.

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• Competition for status is a zero sum game

  Richard Layard, Baron Layard

  Zero, Games, Competition

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• The discussion of derivatives in the political world has become a zero sum game.

  Jim Himes

  Zero, Games, Political

  "Jim Himes, Former Goldman Sachs Executive, Introduces Bill To Roll Back Key Element Of Dodd-Frank". Connecticut Mirror Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 07, 2013.

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• The funny thing about advertising is that it's not a zero-sum game... Historically, in the digital ad world, pie has gotten larger and it's possible for everyone to win, and it's perfectly possible that will continue to be true for quite some time.

  Eric Schmidt

  Zero, Winning, Funny Things

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• When you are in a relationship, you are aware that it might end. You might grow apart, find someone else, simply fall out of love. But a friendship isn't a zero-sum game, and as such, you assume that it will last forever, especially an old friendship. You take its permanence for grandted, whuch might be the very thing so dear about it.

  Emily Giffin

  Falling In Love, Zero, Games

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• The person that is buying a share of stock is convinced he knows something that the other person who's selling it to him does not know. There's no zero sum game in Wall Street.

  Bernard Madoff

  Zero, Wall, Games

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• Psychologist Nathaniel Branden speaks of a benevolent sense of life possible to those with rational, productive values, vividly contrasted with the coercive parasitic group-culture of mystics and altruists we live in, where people all around you seem a burdensome annoyance, a threat to your survival. Having been told from childhood that life is a zero-sum game in which you owe everything to others, at some level you worry all the time that someday the bastards will collect. And collect they do, every April 15th. Why do you think they call it collectivism?

  L. Neil Smith

  Zero, Thinking, Games

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• We still find, especially in parts of academe, the damaging notion that everything is a struggle for power, or being empowered, or hegemony, or oppression: and that all competition is a zero-sum game. This is not more than repetition of Lenin's destructive doctrine. Intellectually, it is reductionism; politically, it is fanaticism.

  Robert Conquest

  Zero, Struggle, Games

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• Many guys see relationships with women as a zero-sum game: If she wins, he loses. Marriage is the ultimate contest: Her job is to get him to capitulate to marriage. So many men see marriage as the "end of freedom," the end of boyhood. That's why bachelor parties are supposed to revel in that boyish irresponsibility "one last time." So many guys figure, "Why rush into something that means basically that you'll be a prisoner forever?"

  Michael Kimmel

  Zero, Jobs, Party

  "How hookups and hang-ups delay manhood". TODAYshow.com Q&A, www.today.com. August 26, 2008.

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• At least half of the popular fallacies about economics come from assuming that economic activity is a zero-sum game, in which what is gained by someone is lost by someone else. But transactions would not continue unless both sides gained, whether in international trade, employment, or renting an apartment.

  Thomas Sowell

  Zero, Games, Employment

  "Random Thoughts" by Thomas Sowell, www.realclearpolitics.com. June 13, 2006.

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• On the political front, of course it's a zero-sum game. If it's all white males holding positions, you bring 10 women in, then it's, 'Women are coming!' Get 10 blacks and it's, 'Blacks are coming!' 'Hispanics are coming!' Zero-sum game. The seatmates might change but the chairs don't move. In the economy, the number of chairs can actually increase.

  Jesse Jackson

  Zero, Moving, Games

  "Jesse Jackson: the Mother Jones Interview". Interview with Douglas Foster, www.motherjones.com. March/April 2000.

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